UPPER GWYNEDD — A Chalfont woman currently under house arrest on a DUI conviction has been charged with more than 50 felony criminal counts after Upper Gwynedd police said she fraudulently racked up more than $4,000 worth of purchases on her fiancé’s ex-wife’s credit card.

Kathryn Ann Sellers, 45, of the 700 block of Anthem Way, was arraigned July 11 before District Judge Robert Sobeck of Whitpain on 31 counts of access device fraud, 18 counts of attempted access device fraud and one count each of theft and receiving stolen property — all graded as third-degree felonies.

Upper Gwynedd detectives said that their investigation into the case began in April, when the alleged victim — a township resident — reported that she had received a credit card statement showing a balance of $3,826.01; the woman said that the statement was strange because the account was in her married name, but she had gotten divorced in 2006 and had since been using a different last name, and she advised police that she did not possess the credit card account.

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Prior to filing a complaint with police, detectives said, the victim said that she conducted her own investigation into the fraudulent account after her ex-husband — who was living with Sellers in Colmar — informed her that he had received the credit card statement in his mail, and that he had only opened it because Sellers had recently moved out and was “no longer retrieving the mail and paying the bills.”

The victim provided detectives with a credit card receipt and signature of a charge from July of 2013 at a Jersey shore restaurant, and both she and her ex-husband advised that the signature was neither of theirs.

Detectives said that during their subsequent investigation, they learned that the credit card account had been opened in 1996 and issued to the victim as the primary card holder, while her then-husband was an authorized user on the account.

As part of the 2006 divorce, according to police, the card was paid off and the account remained dormant — the victim said she believed the account had been closed out — until charges began to appear in July of last year. Detectives said that between July 16, 2013, and April 29, 2014, there were a total of 31 approved charges totaling $4,164.55 and 18 declined charges totaling $1,630.28.

Police said the victim’s ex-husband confirmed that he was with Sellers at the New Jersey restaurant last year and that she had paid the bill, although he stated he was unaware how she had paid.

On May 5, Upper Gwynedd police questioned Sellers at her residence, during which, detectives said, she stated that the credit card had come in the mail last year and despite it not being in her name — it was in the victim’s ex-husband’s name — she put it in her purse, used it to make purchases and “justified it because she paid the bills.”

According to police, she admitted to making the most recent purchase — unspecified merchandise from the Victoria’s Secret catalog for which she paid $173.98 — via phone from her work-release facility in Bucks County.

At the culmination of that interview, Sellers and police came to an agreement in which she promised to immediately pay off, in full, the entire credit card balance in lieu of police filing criminal charges against her, and that she would instead be given a non-traffic citation, detectives said.

On May 21, detectives said, Sellers mailed two checks to the credit card company to pay off the balance, and on May 29, she signed the citation charging her with summary disorderly conduct.

However, on June 28, detectives said, they were advised by the victim that the credit card company had contacted her to say that Sellers’ payment had been returned for insufficient funds.

Detectives said they learned two days later from personnel at Sobeck’s district court that Sellers did not respond to the citation, which was therefore withdrawn and a warrant was issued for her arrest; police were then informed that Sellers had been incarcerated at Bucks County jail for violating the terms of her house arrest.

Upper Gwynedd police filed a criminal complaint against Sellers on July 10. At her July 11 arraignment, Sobeck set bail at $5,000 unsecured, though Sellers remains incarcerated in Bucks County.

She’s due to appear before Sobeck on Aug. 18 for a preliminary hearing in the case.

Court records indicate that in November of last year, Sellers was sentenced by a Bucks County Common Pleas judge to one to two years of house arrest after pleading guilty to two counts of misdemeanor DUI in connection with a January 2013 arrest by New Britain police.